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Childreach Tanzania is a locally registered charity based in Moshi, Kilimanjaro. We work closely with local communities and volunteers to help improve children`s access to quality education, healthcare and child rights and protection in partnership with public primary schools. Childreach Tanzania is part of the global network Childreach International.

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A world where all children have the opportunity to fulfil their potential in life.

Our Mission

To restore child-rights and empower children to create positive change through community based solutions, ensuring children have improved access to education, protection and healthcare. We will work in communities to develop and demonstrate best practice, engaging and collaborating with key players to take our work beyond the boundaries of our organisation.

What We Do

We make primary schools brighter, more child-friendly and healthier. We improve schools by renovating and constructing facilities including classrooms, toilets, teachers' houses, kitchens, dining halls and play-grounds. We also improve sanitation within schools by providing water sources, including water wells, rain water harvesting systems and connecting schools to water mains.

We empower children to advocate for their rights through child-to-child clubs, children are taught and empowered to advocate and lobby for their for their rights to key decision makers. We provide psychosocial to marginalised children and work to ensure that all children in Tanzania have equal opportunities.

We link schools and teach children to be global citizens: children in Tanzania and children in the UK engage in mutual learning and increase their own awareness, as well as the awareness of others, on international issues.

Participatory and child - centred workshops are also conducted in schools where children learn about their rights and responsibilities.

We help schools to provide lunches from their farms: grain and vegetables are grown on school farms and used to provide lunch and improve children’s nutritional intake at school. Parents and community members are also taught sustainable farming techniques that they can use in their own farms.

We light up family homes: our Litre of Light programme uses innovative and cheap technology reliant on sunlight, where bottles of water are installed in dark households. This kind of technology helps people to keep their houses clean, spend less money on kerosene, and children have enough light to do their homework in the evenings. Solar torches are also provided for night-time use.

We provide more opportunities for disabled children: we encourage the enrolment of deaf children into schools and we give sign language training to improve communication between deaf children, teachers and parents. We also provide vocational skills and advocate for the rights of deaf children and young adults.

How We Do It

We work with unsung heroes – people within communities who have been supporting the rights of children for years. By working in partnership with these local activists, we ensure that our projects are tailored to what children really want and are entitled to.

2009

Childreach Tanzania was founded and became an affiliate of Childreach International under the leadership of Anita Chilunda

23 School Improvement projects were initiated in 11 schools

15 groups of university students from the UK traveled to Tanzania to visit Childreach Tanzania’s projects and climb Mount Kilimanjaro 100 trees were planted in schools as part of the Carbon Offsetting Project

2010

15 School Improvement projects were carried out in 4 schools

Carbon Offsetting Project expanded and more trees were planted at schools

School Feeding project started at schools in Manyara Region

School Twinning project started between schools in Tanzania and the UK

Began supporting Ghona Vocational Training Centre for the Deaf in partnership with Signal (previously Woodford Foundation)

Sheila Makindara became Childreach Tanzania’s second Country Director

2011

School Farming and Gardening Programme was initiated with the goal of developing sustainable school feeding programmes

Through the School Improvement Programme 10 schools were renovated

Tree planting continued to preserve the environment in target communities

Support of the Ghona Vocational Training Centre for the Deaf continued

School Twinning project expanded with 8 new links between schools in Tanzania and the UK

2012

Childreach Tanzania partnered with Partnership for Health and Development in Africa ( PHEDA) to build capacity of health education in schools (2012-13)

In partnership with White Orange Youth, Childreach Tanzania provided children in Moshi rural with access to better protection by improving child protection systems and structures (2012-13)

In partnership with ACE Africa, Childreach Tanzania improved the wellbeing of children by increasing their knowledge of children’s rights and HIV prevention while improving access to nutritious food and community-based psychosocial support (programmed ended in 2013)

Childreach Tanzania continued running programmes at Ghona Vocational Centre for the Deaf

School Twinning Programme was improved and renamed ‘My School My Voice’ and was implemented in 21 schools

Family Energy Project – Litre of Light Programme began as an expansion of the Carbon Offsetting Project

Through the School Improvement Programme 4 schools were renovated

2013

Childreach Tanzania initiated a partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP) and started implementing projects together

Support of the Ghona Vocational Training Centre for the Deaf continued

Family Energy Project – Litre of Light Programme continued

As part of the My School My Voice Programme, Childreach Tanzania helped 14 Tanzanian teachers visit the UK, funded by the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms programme

An all-female climbing team summited Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness about girls’ education and the importance of school meals. The climbing team was was comprised of 10 women from Nepal, South Africa and Tanzania. After summiting Mount Kilimanjaro the climbing team visited schools supported by Childreach Tanzania and the World Food Programme (WFP) to inspire girls to achieve their educational goals.

2014

Through a partnership with Deaf Child Worldwide, Childreach Tanzania started the Deaf Education and Development Programme (scheduled to end in 2017)

As part of the school gardening project, Childreach Tanzania collaborated on a project with the World Food Programme to reduce hunger and malnutrition among school children and improve academic performance and attendance rates in Simanjiro District

Developed partnership with GIZ, a German organisation dedicated to international cooperation for sustainable development

Through the School Improvement Programme 5 schools were renovated

Support of the Ghona Vocational Training Centre for the Deaf continued

Childreach Tanzania received the Stars Impact Award for Education in Africa Middle-East

A documentary, “Holding Up the Sky,” which documented the all-female climb up Mount Kilimanjaro premiered at the Arusha Film Festival and won the category of Best Documentary of the Year